Francis Martin (1970 - 1970)

Senior Fellow and Vice-Master of Trinity College/ (bio by: David Conway)

Alfred Marshall (1842 - 1924)

Alfred Marshall was born in Clapham, England, 26 July 1842. His father was a bank cashier and a devout Evangelical. Marshall grew up in the London suburb of Clapham and was educated at the Merchant Taylors’ School and St John’s College, Cambridge, where he demonstrated an aptitude in mathematics, achieving the rank of Second Wrangler […]

Auguste Mariette (1821 - 1881)

French Egyptologist. He founded the Egyptian Antiquities Service and the famous Egyptian Museum. He is best known for his four year excavations of the Serapeum at Saqqara. He died at Bulaq in 1881 and was buried in a sarcophagus which was later moved to the forecourt in Egyptian Museum in El Cairo.  (bio by: José […]

William Lort Mansel (1753 - 1820)

Bishop of Bristol, and Master of Trinity College Cambridge 1798-1820. (bio by: David Conway)

Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)

Educator. Born in Massachusetts, he was an educator and a statesman who greatly advanced the cause of universal, free, non-sectarian public schools. After graduation in 1819, he taught, studied law and entered politics, serving in the State Assembly 1827 to 1837. He was the first secretary to Massachusetts Commission to improve education and was the […]

Mary Lyon (1797 - 1849)

The daughter of a farming family in Buckland, Massachusetts, Mary Lyon had a hardscrabble childhood. Her father died when she was five, and the entire family pitched in to help run the farm. Lyon was thirteen when her mother remarried and moved away; she stayed behind in Buckland in order to keep the house for […]

Henry Richards Luard (1825 - 1891)

Historian and Registrar of Cambridge University. (bio by: David Conway)

A. Lawrence Lowell (1856 - 1943)

President of Harvard.  Family links:  Parents:  Augustus Lowell (1830 – 1900)  Katharine Bigelow Lawrence Lowell (1832 – 1895)  Spouse:  Anna Parker Lowell Lowell (1856 – 1930)*  Siblings:  Infant Lowell (____ – 1870)**  A. Lawrence Lowell (1856 – 1943)  Roger Lowell (1862 – 1863)*  Amy Lowell (1874 – 1925)* *Calculated relationship**Half-sibling

Bernard Daniel Jacques Loiseau (1951 - 2003)

Restaurateur. One of France’s top chefs, he was devastated when the renowned “GaultMillau” food guide cut the rating for his flagship restaurant and killed himself with a hunting rifle. (bio by: Ron Moody)

David Lipscomb (1831 - 1917)

Well known personality in the Church of Christ and founder of David Lipscomb College (Now David Lipscomb University) in Nashville. (bio by: Tim Crutchfield)  Family links:  Parents:  Granville Lipscomb (1802 – 1853)  Spouse:  Margaret O Zellner Lipscomb (1842 – 1926)*  Children:  Zellner Lipscomb (1863 – 1864)*  Siblings:  David Lipscomb (1831 – 1917)  John Lipscomb (1838 […]

(1913 - 1975)

Fellow of the Royal Society, Master of Sidney Sussex College (1970-1975) and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University (1973-1975) (bio by: David Conway)

Henry George Liddell (1811 - 1898)

English classical scholar. Headmaster Westminster School 1846-1855; Dean of Christ Church, Oxford 1855-1898. Famous for his Greek- English Lexicon 1843. His daughter Alice was the inspiration for Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland.  Family links:  Children:  Alice Liddell (1852 – 1934)* *Calculated relationship

Leone Levi (1821 - 1888)

Instigated the establishment of Chambers of Commerce in Northern England, held first Chair of commerce at Kings College London.

Sir John Lestrange (1970 - 1970)

Fellow of the College (bio by: David Conway)

Anna Harriet Edwards Leonowens (1831 - 1915)

Folk Figure. Current scholarship indicates that Anna was born Ann Harriet Edwards in 1831 India to a British father, Thomas Edwards, a cabinetmaker, and a half British, half East Indian mother, Mary Anne Glasscott. In 1849, Anna met and married Thomas Leon Owens, a clerk. After the death of their first child they left India. […]

James Lenox (1800 - 1880)

Educator, Philanthropist. An American bibliophile, he was a founder of the Presbyterian Hospital, New York City. The son of a wealthy Scot merchant, he used his inheritance to acquire rare books and works of art. He donated his manuscripts and artwork to the City of New York, and the collection formed the foundation of the […]

William Lemp, III (1900 - 1943)

William was the son of William Jr., former president of the Lemp Brewery in St. Louis. (bio by: Connie Nisinger)  Family links:  Parents:  William Jacob Lemp (1867 – 1922)  Lillian Handlan Lemp (1877 – 1960)

Thomas Legge (1970 - 1607)

Educator, Playwright. His Latin tragedy “Richardus Tertius, or Richard III” (1579), was England’s first true history play. Legge changed the course of Elizabethan drama by introducing the nation’s political past to the stage, and by relying on historical sources (Sir Thomas More and Holinshed’s chronicles) for the material. The genre reached its peak with the […]

Stephen Dill Lee (1833 - 1908)

Civil War Confederate Lieutenant General, Educator. The youngest Lieutenant General of the Confederacy,  Stephen Dill Lee was born to Dr. Thomas Lee and Caroline Allison Lee on September 22, 1833, in Charleston, South Carolina.  He entered West Point at the age of 17 and graduated in 1854; he served in the U.S. Army in Texas, […]

Benjamin F. Lee, Sr (1970 - 1970)

Professor and President (1876-1884) of Wilberforce University. His son, B.F. Lee, also became a professor at Wilberforce University and, later, a physician who served the Wilberforce and Xenia, Ohio, communities. The B.F. Lee Health Center in Wilberforce honors this family.

John Lawrence (1970 - 1970)

English scholar. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Frank Charles Laubach (1884 - 1970)

Religious Leader. A Congregational missionary and educator, beginning in 1929 he developed literacy primers for more then 300 languages and dialects in more than 100 countries. In 1955 he founded the non-profit organization, Laubach Literacy Inc. He created the slogan “Each One Teach One.”  Family links:  Parents:  John Brittain Laubach (1849 – 1935)  Harriet Jane […]

Sir Horace Lamb (1849 - 1934)

Mathematician. Teacher of Sir John Cockroft and Sir Arthur Eddington, among others. Specialist in hydrodynamics. Father of the artist Henry Lamb. (bio by: David Conway)  Family links:  Spouse:  Elizabeth Foot Lamb (1845 – 1930)*  Children:  Helen Elizabeth Lamb Palmer (1876 – 1954)* *Calculated relationship

John Laing (1879 - 1978)

Born in Carlisle and educated at the grammar school there, he became President of John Laing and Sons, the building contractors, and was also President of the London Bible College. He was knighted in 1959. (bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)  Family links:  Spouse:  Beatrice Laing (____ – 1972)* *Calculated relationship

Catherine Ladd (1809 - 1899)

Educator. Wrote and contributed poems, news-letters, and articles on education and art to southern journals and magazines. In Winnsborough, South Carolina, she successfully conducted a large boarding school until the Civil War began. She also published in the “Floral Wreath” and other periodicals tales, essays, and poems under the pen-names “Minnie Mayflower,” “Arcturus,” “Alida,” and […]

William Saul “Bill” Kroger (1906 - 1995)

Medical pioneer in the field of Psychology. (bio by: A.J. Marik)  Family links:  Parents:  Charles Mendell Kroger (1879 – 1929)  Rose Ziskin Kroger (1880 – 1958)

Juanita Morris Kreps (1921 - 2010)

Presidential Cabinet Secretary. She served as United States Secretary of Commerce from 1977 until 1979, during the administration of President Jimmy Carter, becoming the first female in that capacity. The daughter of a coal mine operator, her parents divorced when she was four. She was raised in a poverty-stricken Kentucky community during the depression, and […]

Elizabeth Duncan Koontz (1919 - 1989)

Educator. She was a teacher for 30 years, before becoming the first African American woman to head the Bureau of North Carolina Teachers Association. During the presidential Administration of Richard M. Nixon, she was the highest ranking black woman, heading the Women’s Bureau of the Department of Labor and served as a delegate to the […]

Naito Konan (1866 - 1934)

Also known as “Torajiro Naito,” he was a world-renowned Sinologist. After initially working as a journalist, he traveled to China frequently and became a professor of Chinese civilization at the University of Kyoto. He wrote many works on Sinology and became an expert on Chinese art. He was also an excellent calligrapher who also wrote […]

Kiyonori Konakamura (1970 - 1970)

Scholar of classical Japanese during the early Meiji era. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)